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THE FLAX INDUSTRY.

REPORTED NEW DISCOVERY

GUM AND DYE MAY PROVE

VALUABLE.

By Telegraph—Pre3i Association

PALMERSTON N;, May 20,

A well attended meeting of flaxmillers was held on Thursday, to discuss matters brought up by Mr William Akere, who recently returned from a visit to Manila and Europe. Mr Akers had seen in London a newly invented process for utilising products. This process Dr Manmann, the inventor was willing to give to New Zealand millers, if it was made worth his while. It was pointed out that the gum an 3 the dye from the fibre, both at present deemed drawbacks in flax dressing, were most valuable. A strong deputation of millers was therefore appointed to wait on the Miniiter and ask that a bonus be offered to inventors of machinery and other means of improving the treatment cf oax, and cheapening the coat of production. A substantial b nus is to be asked for, and it is to be suggested that any expenditure made by the Government will be met from a tonnage tax on the fibre exported. _____

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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10049, 21 May 1910, Page 6

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THE FLAX INDUSTRY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10049, 21 May 1910, Page 6

THE FLAX INDUSTRY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10049, 21 May 1910, Page 6

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